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I think an elf is supposed to be a bit like fish out of water when not
in a forest, its along the same lines as playing a nomad when separated
from their mount.<br>
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However - to throw an idea in - there could be specialist spirits or
magics that render a marked area ritually as woodland to offset the
penalties. That fits quite well with the forest-spreaders idea if a
side-effect of the ritual is to make each such area more likely to see
a forest outbreak at some stage due to a mythic connection to the Great
Forest, perhaps on a complete success you actually get the Woodland
bonus - and unknown to anyone else that spot becomes a place of future
forest growth. So just set out your special living twigs and within the
marked area 'Presto!' you feel and function OK.<br>
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In a similar vein I think that only the Iron Mostali would not usually
suffer crippling agoraphobia when outside their underground cities.<br>
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Nic<br>
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Sam Elliot wrote:
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<div>Lev, I´m wrestling with some of the rules aspects of elvishness
before I can really make the character. My main concern at the moment
is the generic -10 penalty for elves when outside a forest. I was
actually toying with the idea of a dryad rather than an elf and that´d
be a worse situation.</div>
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<div>What I figured was that if the Lunars can have a breeding
programme and produce the likes of JarEel then the Aldryami most
certainly can. So, I was thinking of making something which isn´t quite
an elf, isn´t quite a dryad, but is a special plant produced for
special circumstances. I think the main purpose of such constructs
would be to sneak around planting those forests which are about to
spring up everywhere. Not in the case of this plant, mind. More of a
witch queen type.</div>
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<div>If I do this, I might give her Talents like a dryad has rather
than tie her to animism, essence or whatever. Unfortunately (in this
instance), I am a biologist so I might get a bit involved with making
it make biological sense.</div>
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<div>Can you tell me if that´d be okay please? </div>
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<div>Ta.</div>
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<div>Sam.</div>
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<div>p.s. I was thinking she´d have "Leaves Blossoms Behind her
Wherever She Goes" as an ability. This´d allow Mark´s Belveren to
follow her and get fresh materials for her sacrifices for free...(we
had a whole long Get-a-Belveren-to-heal-all-the-chaos-plants (incl.
dryads) heroquest thing in our game, BTW.)</div>
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